Sexy Adorno
Recently, Der Spiegel published very erotic excerpts from Adorno's sex diaries, confirming what a small circle knew all along -- the man was a stud.
I won't reprint the translation of the hot encounter here, (let's just say that there was a judicious dose of B&D) because
what I'm more interested in is the way he continues to blow my MIND!
Now I understand why they don't teach critical theory (or continental philosophy for that matter) in public high schools in this country -- because reading Adorno (or Hegel) for that matter is a more intense trip than any drug experience on the market. The guy was completely WILD! I mean Dave Hickey is a good writer and everything --very smooth, but if you want to get REALLY freaky -- get down with the dialectic and you'll never see the straight world in the same way again. I promise, or your money back.
Let me give you just (almost randomly chosen) one excerpt from Adorno's "Notes on Kafka"
"His texts are designed not to sustain a constant distance between themselves and their victim, but rather to agitate his feelings to a point where he fears that the narrative will shoot toward him like a locomotive in a three-dimensional film."
Of course, you can join the millions of satisfied Hickey and Paglia readers who can pat themselves on the back for trashing "junior professors" and their vulgar marxo-feminism. Yeah, beat up on eggheads -- everyone will cheer you on! I've never heard of a less risky proposition than to trash tenured bureaucrats in print. Now I've been screwed over by my share of t. b.'s, but I'm not about to sign on the dotted line of Hickey's market populism and Paglia's dumbass feminist bashing. In the spirit of full disclosure: I was in her class at Yale on "Decadence," and all I can say is, it was NOT sexy.
I won't reprint the translation of the hot encounter here, (let's just say that there was a judicious dose of B&D) because
what I'm more interested in is the way he continues to blow my MIND!
Now I understand why they don't teach critical theory (or continental philosophy for that matter) in public high schools in this country -- because reading Adorno (or Hegel) for that matter is a more intense trip than any drug experience on the market. The guy was completely WILD! I mean Dave Hickey is a good writer and everything --very smooth, but if you want to get REALLY freaky -- get down with the dialectic and you'll never see the straight world in the same way again. I promise, or your money back.
Let me give you just (almost randomly chosen) one excerpt from Adorno's "Notes on Kafka"
"His texts are designed not to sustain a constant distance between themselves and their victim, but rather to agitate his feelings to a point where he fears that the narrative will shoot toward him like a locomotive in a three-dimensional film."
Of course, you can join the millions of satisfied Hickey and Paglia readers who can pat themselves on the back for trashing "junior professors" and their vulgar marxo-feminism. Yeah, beat up on eggheads -- everyone will cheer you on! I've never heard of a less risky proposition than to trash tenured bureaucrats in print. Now I've been screwed over by my share of t. b.'s, but I'm not about to sign on the dotted line of Hickey's market populism and Paglia's dumbass feminist bashing. In the spirit of full disclosure: I was in her class at Yale on "Decadence," and all I can say is, it was NOT sexy.
1 Comments:
Awesome - absolutely agree with you on Adorno, and Hegel for that matter; 'The Philosophy of Nature' - still getting flashbacks.
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